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Yata no Kagami

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The eight-span sacred mirror of Japanese imperial regalia. Not the generic mirror node, and not every later looking-glass omen.

Shinto

Yata no Kagami appears in Shinto.
The Kojiki places the eight-span mirror among the objects used to lure Amaterasu from the rock-cave. A named imperial mirror in that court narrative, not the generic mirror node.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Yata no Kagami is sacred to Amaterasu.
The Kojiki places the eight-span mirror among the treasures shown to Amaterasu to draw her from the rock-cave. A named mirror of that sun kami, not a generic mirror, and not Yata as a Yasakani flatten.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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sources

Kojiki · Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation)
Donald L. Philippi, Kojiki.